We run an automated process which changes the data structure in a file, and it has run for about a year without any issues. It has just started failing and I have narrowed the problem down to one of ...

Sometimes, I'd like to know the name of a glyph. For example, if I see −, I may want to know if it's a hyphen -, an en-dash –, an em-dash —, or a minus symbol −. Is there a way that I can copy-paste ...

I use Geany for all my coding, in my linux Mint-MATE install. Occasionally, i have a problem where a non-breaking space (char code 194) is present instead of a normal space character (32). This just ...

After I have learned that the $$ special variable holds the process number of the shell, I tried too kill the shell by simply: kill , however this did not work, I also tried some variations, but them ...

I have a script that sends out email to sysadmin group when a server is powered on or off. The email contains dump of some important logs like /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, /var/log/boot.log . ...

What's the best way to printf an exclamation point in tcsh?
It seems like using single or double quotes has no effect on escaping the exclamation point; and using a backspace does work, but then it ...

When I write a question, I'd like the space between the final word and the question mark to be non-breaking, and this very sentence is an example of it (this is why it is awkward), how can I do that ?
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I have a large file that contains lot MQ messages with RFH2 header. Each message in the file is separated by a blank line. Now I need to split this large file into small files each containing single ...

What is the ` character's name and what is its significance outside of SE code formatting because I cannot get it to work? I'm familiar with its use in the Stack Exchange forums used to format code ...

I'm trying to create a simple wrapper shell script for rsync. When I send file names to my script, rsync can never seem to identify the correct location. The file names have spaces in them. I've tried ...

Both give the output of the command, so what is the semantic difference between the two? Some reading led me to suspect is that $(command) is Bash syntax, and the back quotes are integrated into Unix ...

I have a big playlist in .pls format (created with deadbeef playing software) which also contains some badly-encoded strings. Whether this is a bug in deadbeef or one of its plugins does not really ...

I keep a list of photos burned to dvds for incremental backups but I got into a strange situation where a file was already burned into a dvd but tar keeps saying it's not. Here the steps to reproduce:
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I have a hard time understanding how the file name encoding works. On unix.SE
I find contradicting explanations.
File names are stored as characters
To quote another answer:
Several questions about ...

As I recall, ^H means Backspace. I generated it by pressing CTRL+V, CTRL+H.
So the ^H should remove the last character, as it is the same as Backspace and it should act just as if I pressed Backspace ...